CF Grants

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This program is open all year and assists in the development of essential community facilities in rural ' In Oklahoma, RD funds will be used to purchase a 14-passenger bus for Boswell Public Schools. The school needed a smaller bus where staff members can transport students without having to obtain a CDL, providing needed flexibility for school transportation needs. Other agency investments in school transportation include funding that will be used to build a new bus shed for New Lima Public Schools to help protect the school's buses and increase their longevity in service to the school district. Focusing on building improvements at schools, funds will be used to purchase a new HVAC system in the school cafeteria at Wilburton Public School in. RD invested in public safety by awarding grant funds for the purchase of a new police cruiser for the City of Sayre and two new police vehicles to improve public safety in the ' RD invests in rural America's public safety beyond police departments to include fire departments. In Iowa, RD invested in purchasing equipment for volunteer fire departments. In Epworth, funding was used to purchase 15 pieces of equipment for its volunteer fire department. The project will provide ladders, hoses, nozzles, firefighting gear for the volunteers, and touch-controlled digital computer tablets for use at emergency scenes and to communicate with receiving hospitals. It is an essential project for the safety of the fire department volunteers during emergency responses and the protection of residents in this rural Dubuque County community and surrounding areas. In Sabula, the funding will be used to obtain 16 sets of turnout gear to protect the volunteer firefighters in the city's fire department against heat, flames, and other hazards during emergency calls. Once completed, this project will better provide for the safety of the volunteers and for the protection of residents of this rural Jackson County community.

Extracted from Rural Housing Service, p. 49. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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